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A generous interpretation of this Article, in accordance with the doctrines put forward in the
Memorandum of the Local Government Board on School Closure and Infectious Disease, made it
one of the most powerful factors for promoting good health among the children. Any inducement
to officials or teachers to increase attendance at the risk of health was removed. It is, therefore,
advisable to treat the provisions for registration, calculation of average attendance, the grading of
schools and remuneration of teachers in accordance with scale, as if the epidemic grant still remained
in force.
Diagram X.
“ 1905, p. 24.” It is to be noted that one of the conscquences of the abolition of the
Article marked 101*, in the late code of the Board of Education, is that not only is the grant for
absentees lost, but, in cases of severe epidemics, authorities are actually fined for keeping schools
open, and it would be almost worth while defining what percentage attendance is required to prevent
loss of grant arising from keeping a school open and marking the registers.
The reinstatement of this Article 101* has been urged on the Board of Education by many
educational and sanitary authorities in the country, but their entreaties are made to those whose